Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Finance

Buyouts and bitcoin: Inside the messy boardroom fight at a treasury company that may span to others

Empery Digital holds 3,723 BTC as a reserve asset, and a major investor is calling for the company to sell the lot and return the cash to shareholders.

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Markets

Bitcoin falls with ether, solana while decred, AI-linked tokens advance

Positioning in futures and options shows traders looking to protect against further declines.

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Markets

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs set for biggest week in 6 after adding $1.1 billion in three days

The inflows coincide with a rebound in the Coinbase Premium index, signaling renewed U.S. demand.

Chart of U.S. bitcoin EFT Inflows and Outflows (SoSoValue)

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Tech

Flare and Xaman unlock one-click DeFi access for over 2 billion XRP sitting idle in wallets

The integration lets XRP holders deposit into yield-generating vaults through a single transaction without leaving their existing wallet or bridging assets manually.

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Policy

UK investors have just one month to add crypto ETNs in tax-free wrapper: FT

The lifting of the ban on retail investors accessing crypto ETNs was seen as a major win in the adoption of crypto investments due to the possibility of it being added to products like ISAs.

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Tech

The Protocol: Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT alleges Axiom employee conducted insider trading

Also: Ethereum’s “strawmap”, Robinhood chain update and OpenAI + smart contracts

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Markets

Crypto investigator ZachXBT alleges trading platform Axiom's employee conducted insider trading

ZachXBT.alleges a senior Axiom employee used internal dashboards to access private wallet data and track traders’ activity, raising questions about potential insider trading.

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Finance

MetaMask expands debit card across U.S. after year-long pilot

The card lets users spend digital assets directly from their self-custodial wallets at various merchants.

MetaMask's mobile app (Gabby Jones, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump family-linked American Bitcoin posts $59 million Q4 loss as bitcoin price slides

The bitcoin mining company now holds over 6,000 BTC, with roughly one-third acquired through mining and two-thirds through open-market purchases and strategic transactions.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)